Ventilated freight car



Nov. 20, 1928. 1,692,238

W. E. WINE VENTILATED FREIGHT CAR Filed Nov. 9, 1925 Rueni'or:

XAZilZiai EJ Vine Patented Nov. 20, 1928.

' UNITED s'r -rss WILLIAM E. NINE, 0F TOLEDO, OHIO;

VEN'IILATEDFREIGI-l'l CAR. 5

Application filed November 9, 1925. Serial No. 67,821.

My invention relates to 1 new and useful improvements in ventilatedfreight-cars and has for an object to so arrange a multiplicity ofventilators that the air will circulate from one end to the other of thecar, across the car and from the bottom to the top of the car.

The present application is a companion application to that filed by meon March 20, 1925, Serial No. 16,985, vnow Patent No. 1,599,451 and toone filed of even date herewith bearing Serial No. 67,820, and nowPatent No. 1,660,786.

One of the objects of the, present invention is to not only so arrangethe ventilators that the car will be thoroughly ventilated, but furtherto so situate the side end ventilators that they may be readily andquickly opened and closed. 7

I have spoken of the side end ventilators, and it is to be understood,as may be seen from the drawings, that these ventilators are in thesides of the car near the ends.

A ventilator located in an upper corner of a car, unless situated aswill be further explained, is rather hard to manipulate, as it is toohigh to be reached from the ground and a trainman has to either leanaway around the side of the car from a ladder and try to reach theventilator, or he has to kneel down on the roof of the car to manipulateit.

\Vith the ventilators so diiferent to manipulate, a trainman is very aptto leave the ventilator open or closed, as the case may be, to thedetriment of the goods within the car. i

In the present application, therefore, I have located a ventilator orventilators adjacent the car ladder so that a trainman standing on aladder may easily manipulate the same.

As is well known to those skilled in the railway art, ladders are placedon freight cars on its sides near its ends, one ladder being on one sideof the car near one end, and another ladder on the other side of the carat its opposite end, and in the present application, therefore, theventilators are located respectively by the two ladders. Y

WVith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certainnew and novel arrangements and combination of parts as will behereinafter more fully described and pointed out inthe claim.

Referring now to the drawings showing a preferred form of the invention,

end and the ladder 5 at the far side on its opposite end. It is to benoticed that the door 2 is designed to move rearwardly, that is, the oneon the near side, to the point 6, while'the door post 7 limits themovement of the door. in

the opposite direction, and this post 7 acts 7 as a post, a stop and asupport for a ventilator, EISVIS described and claimed in my coinpanionapplication, noted above, bearing Serial No. 67,820, and now Patent No.1,660,-

Adjacent this door post 7, I provide the two ventilators 8 which arepreferably of the wellknown l Vine type, and so that the same may beconveniently operated by a trainman, I provide a step 9 on the side sill10 and position the grab-iron 11 adjacent the ventilators 8, so that thetrainmen may easily grasp the handles 12 of the ventilators and open andclose them as may be necessary.

In a like manner, on the far side of the car, I provide the twoventilators 13, in this instance opposite the door post 14, which issimilar in all respects to the door post 7, it being noticed that thedoor on the far side operates to an'open and closed position in anopppositc direction to that of the door on the near side.

Now, on the near'side of the car, and adjacent the ladder 4, and in theupper corner of the side of the car, I position a ventilator 15, whichventilator is similar to the other ventilators heretofore mentioned, andon the far side of the car at the same end, I provide a ventilator 16,but in this instance the ventilator isin the lower corner of the side,there being no ladder on this side, but due to the proximity of theventilator to the ground, it may be easily manipulated by a trainmanfrom the ground. I

In the opposite manner, at the left hand of the car, in the upper lefthand corner, I position the ventilator 17, while on the near side of thecar I position the ventilator '18 sectional view taken on line in thelower left hand corner, the ladder 5 being on this far side, the upperventilator 17 may be easily operated by a trainman.

By locating these ventilators in this manner, the ventilation is alongthe lower part of the car and likewise will be along the top of the car,and furthermore, by staggering these ventilators, the air will pass, notonly lengthwise of the car, but across the car and thereby afford amaximum of ventilation.

Furthermore, the arrangement of the ventilators is such with respect tothe ladders, that the high ones may be operated from the ladder, and thehigh ones adjacent the doors may be operated from the step on the sidesill. Due to the accessibility of these ventilators the car willprobably be more efficiently ventilated than in most instances, not onlydue to the cross ventilation, but to the personal element involved.

1 have found that the ventilators in the sides of the car and by thedoors are much more efficient than the ventilators in the ends of thecar due to the cross circulation, and

. due to the fact that one car does not keep out the draft from anothercar.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the ventilators arescientifically arranged to pro vide the maximum amount of ventilationand at the same time, are arranged in a most accessible manner.

Many slight changes might be made without in any Way departing from thespirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is A freight car of the closed box car type,provided with the usual doors and usual diagonally disposed ladders,ventilators arranged in the sides of the car adjacent the door openings,said ventilators arranged in diagonal relation to each other, furtherventilators in each of the sides of the car and disposed in the uppercorners of the car and near their respective adjacent ladders and afurther ventilator on each side of the car and near the lower cornerthereof and these last mentioned ventilators being substantiallycliametrically across the car from the nearby ladder.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM E. WINE.

